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Drama

6.3/10
COUNTRIES: Australia,United States of America
Subtitles: English

Through helping an alcoholic friend, Tom finds himself trapped in a mine and at the mercy of a murderer.

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The Flying Doctors - Season 5

S05 E01

The ClimberA bloke and his girlfriend turn up in town to see David - they are old friends. David and the bloke go climbing, his girlfriend isn't feeling well and stays at the hotel. The girlfriend seems to be getting worse and when Nancy sees her she calls Tom. It turns out to be a very bad case of food poisoning. During the climb the bloke starts feeling ill and can't carry on, he waits on ledge half way up and David goes for help. The food poisoning was from some caviar and champagne they had both had.

S05 E02

Dead ReckoningWhen charter pilot Doug Holland flies into Coopers Crossing to refuel his aircraft, a nightmare begins for Geoff, Kate and the other doctors.

S05 E03

A Bride to BeTypical Aussie outback man Whistler, who loves Alice but has avoided marriage for 20 years, discovers that the time has come to make a decision. In order to raise some extra money so that he will be able to support her, he attempts cattle rustlingâ€”but collapses in the process.

S05 E04

A Place for the NightA young girl blames herself for her sister's drowning and loses the will to walk. While taking her to Broken Hill for tests, the plane makes a forced landing, and Geoff and Kate decide to stay the night in an eerie homestead occupied by two strange sisters.

S05 E05

End of the RainbowNick goes to an opal-miner called Jackson with a generator. Jackson attacks Nick but then get trouble breathing. He goes to hospital with his daughter while Nick stays to guard the mine. A thief comes at night and manages to get some opals with him. When Jacksom comes to the mine the following day he gets sick again and David take some tests of the mine. Jackson thinks his former partner, Palmer, stole the opals and goes over to his mine. David goes after him and finds them fighting in the mine. Suddenly the roof crashes down and the three of them are trapped inside. In the last minute they are saved by Tom and Nick. David finds out Jackson was allergic to some fungus in the mine and therfore he can't keep working in it. He sells the mine to Parker.

S05 E06

Doube VisionTom is treating a girl named Kim, she's burnt her hands. She falls in love with Tom and follows him everywhere which is a bit embarresing. She follows him to the airport and climbs into the cargospace in front of the plane when they go on a clinicround. They find her there after a while and she has to stay with them over night. The following day she finds out her mother will come. She is very upset and runs away. Tom finds her on top of a windmill and manages, though difficulties, get her down. They found out Kim's schizophrenic and she will go back to town for treatment.

S05 E07

The Boy in the BootA father, Rex, and his son Tim is heading toward Coopers Crossing whne Tim gets in the boot of the car. They have a caraccident, but is saved in the last minute before the truck burns into a wreck. Tim will be fine, but Geoff finds out Rex's got a heart disease. It isn't curable and Rex wants to spend time with his son. They leave for a farm the following morning. Tim's mother, Jess, turns up in town and claims Rex has kidnapped Tim, she wants him back! At the farm Rex and Tim finds out the person they were looking for had moved but they stay there with Di and Ellie Martin. Suddenly Rex collapses. Geoff and Kate come but Rex died in the plane. Tim decided to stay on the farm to try some country life.

S05 E08

Windows of the SoulDavid is getting a man to hospital who hurt his head. David finds out he's been in Vietnam but he doesn't want to talk about it. But he does have a heart condition and needs a by pass operation in Sydeny. He refuses to go though, he reckons he's got nothing to live for. He runs away from the hospital but then his daughter from Vietnam shows up. Apparantly he had no knowledge of her. She and David go looking for her father and finally they manage to locate him. After lots of dramas the man ends up in hospital, and when he sees he has a daughter who cares about him he decides to go through with the operation and he and his daughter leave for Sydney together.

S05 E09

Rest in PeaceNick and Annie find a car in a dried creek with two bodies inside. They are believed to be Bob and Rachel Jordan, who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. Tom is suspicious and finally they find out the man in the car wasn't Bob. It turned out Rachel had had an affair - Bob was ill and spent most of his time in bed. Their son found out and told Bob, who was very upset. Rachel and her ""boyfriend"" took off, but apparently they didn't get any further than the creek. Shortly afterwords Bob died, but made Michael swear not to tell the truth. Michael held his promise and burried Bob at the property. He had had mental problems ever since.

S05 E10

Life LineChris undergoes an emotional crisis after receiving some devastating news about her father.

S05 E111990-07-19

Fly Like a BirdThe new pilot, Johnno Johnosn, arrives. An old man named Les thinks he's got asbestosis from mine-jobs. He's convinced he'll die and wants compensation money from the mining company. He's gonna give the money to a boy named Matt, who wants to be a pilot. Les finds out he's not gonna die after all, and when Matt finds out he steels Johnno's plane. Johnno manages to talk him down though.

S05 E12

A Day to RememberDuring a clinicround there are reports of small fires, which eventually turns out to be one huge fire! Geoff goes out there, but burns his hands and is replaced by David. He attends a family where the woman is seriously ill. They manage to get her to hospital, but she needs major surgery in Sydney. There's no time to fly her there, and Geoff can't operate, so David has to do it! The operation is a success!

S05 E13

A Place to Call HomeNick is out fixing a wind mill, when a woman named Kerry comes, her car broke down. She's pregnant and starts having contractions. Nick helps with the delivery, she gets a baby girl. Something is not right with Kerry though, and it turns out she stole the car and a lot of money from her boss. He comes to Coopers Crossing and says if he gets his stuff back he won't press charges.

S05 E14

Divided LoyaltiesA pilot-friend of Johnno's, Keith Lorrigan, has a plane crash and dies. His wife Vikki finds some heart pills, and Johnno doesn't want anybody to know, they'd only think it was Keith's fault. Johnno tries to work out what happened and discovers Keith thought he was flying barrels of destilled water, when in fact it was sulphuric acid in them. The barrels leeked and caused the crash.

S05 E15

A Rular EducationDavid and Annie go to a remote part of town to do check ups on pupils at the school. One of the boys keeps acting strangly and has bad headaches and his hands keep shaking, his sister is having headaches aswell. The other kids tease him and think he is mad. David tries talking to his father but gets no joy from him, so he goes to see the boy's grandfather. He has got the shakes aswell and says it's miners shake, David finds out from him that stuff from the mines has been leaking into a stream, but then they find out it is getting into water where the boy's father is getting water from to water the vegetables with, so it turns out the boy is being poisoned.

S05 E16

The Ties That BindThe team is presented with a major problem by a couple and their disabled child.

S05 E17

Brother's KeeperThrough helping an alcoholic friend, Tom finds himself trapped in a mine and at the mercy of a murderer.

S05 E18

WildernessA man burns down his house and heads into the outback, taking his daughters with him.

S05 E19

Valentine's DayDavid falls in love with a British woman, she is flying around the world on her own, she is only in town for a few days while her plane is being fixed. But, then David finds out she is very ill and has hodgekins disease. She wants to travel and sees as much of the world as she can before she dies. David asks her to marry him, but she turns him down because of the travelling.

S05 E20

A Little TendernessTom talks to a woman who needs to have her utures removed. The woman lives under horrible cirumstances, he husband is really mean. One day her husband gets badly hurt, and Tom and Johnno flies out there. There's a storm coming in, so they can't fly the hurt man to hospital. Tom has to operate, assisted by Johnno and the wife. The operation is a sucess and finally the couple manages to sort things out.

S05 E21

Poet's CornerAn alcoholic poet with writer's block arrives in Cooper's Crossing and causes trouble by his decision to turn to plagiarism.

S05 E22

The Family FarmA tense situation develops at Cooper's Creek when a distraught man, burdened by his failure to provide for his family, takes two hostagesâ€”one of whom is Geoff.

S05 E23

A Place Where You BelongA young German doctor visiting Australia drops in at Cooper's Crossing and is soon needed to help in an emergency.

S05 E24

Break AwayA young mother tries to escape the clutches of her manic depressive boyfriend by running away to Cooper's Crossing. But will she be safe there?

S05 E25

Billie and PeteGeoff encounters two people from his pastâ€”ex-jazz singer Billie Sorenson and her one-time pianist Pete.

S05 E26

Old Man WeebMagda and Kate have a fight on their hands when they try to persuade an aborigine girl's father to allow her to undergo an operation to save her from a brain tumour.

S05 E27

David and GoliathDavid is called out to a patient who has his leg trapped. Back at the hospital David also notices a lump on the man's chest which he says should be tested and removed. But, the man goes to see another older doctor and he says that the lump is alright as it is. David goes to see the other doctor and ends up in a big disagreement with him. David goes to see the man again to get him to reconsider but he won't. A Flying Doctors offical turns up and tells David not to pursue it any further and that if he doesn't stop his job is on the line, but David won't leave it alone. But, eventually the man lets David do the test and it turns out to be cancer.

S05 E28

Last CarnivalWhen Annie gives treatment to a boy who works on a carnival, the pair develop a strong rapport.

S05 E29

Innocence LostKate and Geoff are called to a home - a girl has been raped. The girl isn't talking much and won't say who done it. Annie goes on a date with Ted Patterson in the bush. There is a detective in town asking questions about the rape. The rapist turns out to be Ted Patterson, he gets into the girl's bedroom through the window, her father shoots him.

S05 E30

Bush ChristmasVic and Nancy are hard at work preparing for Christmas.

S05 E31

What a GuyA new doctor and nurse arrive at Cooper's Crossing. Unfortunately, since he's charming but arrogant and she's tired of overbearing city doctors, the stage is set for a clash.

S05 E32

Bad Moon RisingMan collapses at oil drilling rig, Johnno (the pilot) and David arrive there, the boss running the rig knows Johnno and doesn't like him, something which happened in the past. The boss wants the man back at work, so he discharges himself from hospital, but he collapses again and David is called out again. This time the ground is very wet and muddy and Johnno has difficulties getting the plane off the ground, his past comes back to haunt him. But, after removing the chairs and stuff from inside the plane to make it lighter it manages to do it.

S05 E33

A New LifeA pregnant woman is being flown to the hospital, apart from pilot there is only Kate on the plane, there is a bad storm, the woman gives birth on the plane and Kate has to deliver it. The woman rejects her baby and won't hold it or see it. There is a fire at Clare's house - it burns down and she loses everything, the people in the town are giving her furniture and that. The doctor get another woman who has just had a baby to sit in the bed holding her baby so when the woman sees them she will want to see her baby, but this doesn't work at first. Eventually the woman does hold her baby.

S05 E34

Through Thick and ThinThe doctors are called on to help a pair of English girls who are stranded in the outback.

S05 E35

DeceptionDavid has decided to leave Cooper's Crossing and do something else with his life. A man sacks a jackeroo, the jackeroo has been seeing his daughter - the man tells him to keep away from her. The jackeroo and daughter are having a row - she falls and bangs her head. David is on the way there but sees the jackeroo setting fire to a cabin and tries to stop him, but jackeroo hits him. An older man is coming along in a car and sees David, the older man is a doctor aswell, David tells him about the daughter being injured and the older man sees to her. David has to spend a night in hospital and misses his leaving party at the pub. The next day after David leaves hospital, he hears some shouting and finds the jackeroo stuck half way down a cliff on a ledge he has injured his leg. David goes down to him, then goes back up to call base. Johnno, Geoff and Kate turn up, they throw a stretcher down to David but it gets caught on something, David tries to free it and slips and falls upside down, he

S05 E36

None So BlindKate is faced with possible blindness when battery acid explodes in her face.

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